Humans couldn't be satisfied with spelling out only things they say. They also needed to spell out the sounds around them. Giving a name to a sound is called "onomatopoeia." The word is difficult to ...

We practice dissecting words into bossy-r, keeping magic-e with its long vowel, and labeling the short and long vowel sounds and dividing them into syllables. / Julia Knarr, The Soulard School ...

Welcome back to teaching in room nine our summertime edition. My name is Julia. I'm a second grade teacher at the Soulard school but here for teaching in room nine my lessons focus on phonemic ...

This can make learning to spell the words quite tricky! Watch this short video to see some more examples of silent letter words. Vowel sounds are made by the letters 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o' and 'u'.

You’ve eaten the alphabet again, haven’t you? Give him a hand. Start with the vowels. Vowels are the letters you can sound out without closing your mouth: A, E, I, O, and U. Every word needs one. All ...

The English language has very interesting sound patterns and pronunciation rules that sets it apart from other languages. These sounds tend to be difficult, if not tiresome for non-native speakers to ...